Health & Medicine
Cutting-edge developments in biomedical research, public health, and clinical practice at Harvard’s medical institutions.
Harvard Panel Debunks the Population Implosion Myth
Public health professors parse the evidence surrounding falling U.S. birth rates.
AI as Cancer Oracle?
How is artificial intelligence (AI) being used for cancer detection and prevention?
Private Equity in Medicine and the Quality of Care
Hundreds of U.S. hospitals are owned by private equity firms—does monetizing medicine affect the quality of care?
Portfolio Diet May Reduce Long-Term Risk of Heart Disease and Stroke, Harvard Researchers Find
A little-known diet improves cardiovascular health through several distinct mechanisms.
Reparations as Public Health
A Harvard forum on the racial health gap
How Air Pollution Affects Our Brains
An expert Harvard panel discusses the links between air pollution and dementia, learning, mental health, and mood.
How to Prevent Cancer through Nutrition
Expert advice for daily life
Diagnosis by Fiction
The “Healing Quartet” probes medicine—and life.
Computational Control of a Living Brain?
How an AI agent learned to guide an animal to food—and what it might mean for Parkinson’s patients.
The male-female longevity gap widens
Men’s lower life expectancy fueled by COVID-19, overdoses
You Are What (Your Microbes) Eat
Diet, cooking, and the human microbiome